Telephone attachment.



No. 875,151. Q PATENTBD DmI 31, 1907. D D. Af OASE Z W. H. SMITH.

@ummm ATTAGHMENT..

APPMOTION FILED PEB. 11.31907.

5 e wow j DAVID A. eAsE, or JAMAIGA, Ann

No. eventi.

'rnmrnotn tiene niet, .new YORK.

jletsnted. les, 31, 1.907.

To all whom imag concern.' f

Be it known that we, DAVID @Asn and WILLIAM HART SMITH, citizens of the United States, and residents of Jamaica, Long; ls-y land, New York, and Richmond Hill, -liong Island, New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in yTelephone Attachments, of which the follow ing is a description.

l Our invention relates to an attachment to be applied to telephones, and 'its object is to provide a simple and handymeans for readily securingra memorandum pad and index to a telephone, so as not to interfere with the use of the telephone.

Our Objectis to make such article simple, compact, inexpensive and adapted for the simple form of desk telephone having a ver.- tical neck to which our holder is applied.

In the drawings forming part ot' this application, Figure l is a perspective view of our holder attached to a telephone standard, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. Fig. 3 is a plan view, and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the holder without the pad and index.

The holder consists of a plurality oi superimposed plates l and 2 which are connected at one end by an upright plate 3, the opposite ends of the plates being free and open. These plates are disposed on the telephone so as to be held horizontal, or substantially so, and are adapted to support a memorandum pad and an index for telephone calls. @n the under plate 1 and below the plate 2 is secured an index 4, provided with stepped edges 5, This index is preferably made long enough 'to have the stepped edges 5 extend beyond the plates when in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The index is secured near the corner 6 by means of a set screw 7 so that it will pivot from this screw and may be swuno' out to the position shown in Fig. 1, when tie sheet containing names under any letter may be swunggr into View'.

On the top plate 2 is placed a tablet on which memoranda may be made while using the telephone, and is secured to the plate by upwardly and inwardly extending,r plates t3 and 9, there being two` of the latter at oppo site sides of the tablet and they are provided -Wlth clamping screws 10 which pass there-- through and are secured in a movable clamping plate 11. The latter is secured to the screws l@ so that the screws may revolve therein and carry the plate toward or away from the tablet '7 so that the latter maybe secured against the plate 2 are :lirnily held for use. The screws l@ pre crably provided with a shoulder 12 and underneath with an enlar ed head 13. The screws .7 and l0 are prefera l provided with milled edges 14. @n the left side of the pl is .red 'list piece of metal to held the plates 1 and 2 torich.V ins into a two part loop V[it over the standard 18 o diene, below the receiver, and this loop is ela psd to the telephone by means of screw l?. The manner of use viens. telephone, he swings stepped index sheets out from the point they are pivoted by the screw Kwhen the proper naine is found through the use of' the stepped edges, and al ter taking the phone number contained on this special list, the index. is swung back into its former position. When it is desired to make a meinorandum the tablet 7 on to is used and the pages are torn oil as desire( The general utility, cempactness and simplicity oiE this helder maire it desirable.

.The later'l dimensions of the Whole dethe device is ob- When a. persen desires to use the great, se that the device is not and cverbalancing to 'the phone, as lly the case. This overcomes the a devices. r

lilaving described' my invention, what I claim i 1. a device of' combination of a plurality of supporting plates secured together at one end by a vertical plate, a series of index sheets Ipivoted between 'the said supporting plates by a Set screw near one corner tl'iereol and near the vertical connecting plate, a ilange on the'upper supporting plate projecting over the'top thereof i l tablet secured on the said up= per plat. )y a set screw which passes through the said flange, and means for securing the plates to telephone.

phone companies against such class y described, the

ycpt when the index is swung out, is I t lvVnerly raised by telephone eo. l

2. In a. deviee f the class described, the of the supporting plates and means for seeombinetion of n. plurality "of supporting during the plates te u telephene-` 10 plates secured together et one end and free Signed tln'sth day el Febr'nary, 1907.

i at their other ends, n. series of stepped index DAVID A. CASE.

5 sheets piveted between the snp ortingr WILLIAM HART SMITH.

plates, near one Corner, und et the en( where Witnesses: seid plates are connected :md having their lnAs. G. 'IIENSLEL stepped ends extending,r beyond the free ends (us'iuwm I. ARQNOW. 

